So Roxana and Miguel were progressing really well and we knew that we needed to teach them the law of chastity because if a couple is living together without being married, they have to live in different places or get married to be obeying this commandment before baptism. Bueno. So we taught them, and they were a bit apprehensive about the whole thing, Miguel especially. We told them we would leave them to think about it and talk for a couple days. A couple days later, we taught them the plan of salvation and it was an incredible lesson. This sector in Patagonia has really become sacred ground for me because I have really found a lot of confidence here. Here I have really understood the power and authority I have as a representative of Jesus Christ. I have learned how to listen to the Spirit and testify with the words that the Spirit has given me. In the blessing I received before I left on my mission, I received the promise that I would find great beauty in the Spanish language and understand the concepts of the gospel and internalize them in this language. At first I wondered how that would happen, but being here I have really found my style of explaining the gospel. Because I am speaking Spanish, I have to say the things directly in the way that I know how. And I have found such beauty in speaking very straightforwardly with the people. They need to know exactly what they should do, and if you tell them with love, it really touches their heart. ANYWAY, returning to the story, Roxana told us she wanted to get baptized but that they decided they weren´t going to get married for a while. Well this week every thought that I have is thinking about them and thinking about how we can help them make this decision. A couple days ago, we were fasting for them, that they would make this progress, and we went to visit them, and Roxana said that she had been talking to a member who we had brought to some of the lessons and she was showing her pictures of people getting married in the temple. She said that she wants to be sealed to her family and we were talking a little bit more about that and we were explaining to miguel that, and he told us that he had been thinking a lot about it, and that he had realized that his eyes had really been opened through what we had taught him, and that if Roxana wanted to, he wanted to get married and baptized. an absolute miracle. I was so happy. I love their family so much and I just want to see them happy and united. We will have to work with them a lot to complete this goal but this was a complete miracle. When we found them, two months ago, Miguel had abandoned the family two days before. That´s what I call progress. The picture that I attached is of all the family at the birthday party of the emely, the little baby, who turned one. the other is of a service activity we did pulling weeds. yay!
Oh also we have a baptism this week, another miracle that i´ll have to explain the next time.
love you all!!
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